In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized weakly˛-contractive mappings and give some common fixed point results for this type of contraction. The presented theorems extend, generalize and improve many existing results in the literature. Two examples as well as an application to ordinary differential equations are also given in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 54H25; 47H10 Keywords: common fixed point, point of coincidence, generalized weakly˛-contraction, weakly compatible mappings, two point boundary value problem c 2016 Miskolc University Press 366 HUSEYIN ISIK AND DURAN TURKOGLU Recently, Samet et al.[20] took a new approach to the generalization of Banach contraction principle and introduced the notions of˛-admissible and˛--contractive type mappings, while establishing various fixed point theorems for such mappings in the setting of complete metric spaces. After that, several authors considered the generalizations of this new approach (for example, see [3, 6, 7, 11-13, 16, 19]).In this paper, we prove some common fixed point theorems for a class of generalized weakly˛-contractions in the setting of complete metric spaces. Our results improve and extend the results of Samet at al.[20] and many others. Also, two examples and an application to ordinary differential equations are considered in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.